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152.570 Mhz could possibly be a harmonic of 1050Khz. But it isn't likely. In order for you to recieve the harmonic, you'd have to be inside the radio station itself pretty much.. So that rules out that possibility..

Recently, the W2MPX two meter repeater had been intermittently
receiving interference from the 152 MHz commercial
band resulting in transmitting the interference as noise.
Our repeater had to be shut off on a number of occasions
due to this interference. Armand as well as Tony, N2FDU
tracked down the source of the interference and identified it
to be a paging station (most likely illegally) transmitting continuously
on 152.780 MHz. The interfering station has since
left the air and all has been well with the two meter repeater

This is the likely answer. Some radio and TV stations leave them on all the time, and to the untrained, it would sound like they were broadcasting on these channels, which is not the case. The database shows no license for these frequencies in NJ, in fact they fall in between allocated channels, maybe they're new narrowband allocations.

Wow... That is strange!!!
152.570 Mhz could possibly be a harmonic of 1050Khz. But it isn't likely. In order for you to recieve the harmonic, you'd have to be inside the radio station itself pretty much.. So that rules out that possibility..
Keep listening... See what it does. LOL

1) It takes just a few seconds to divide 152.57 MHz by 1.05 MHz. That results in an imopossible number that shows it can't be a harmonic.
2) Radio stations are usually many miles away from their transmitters, so that rules out that theory.
Any more wild guesses?

1) It takes just a few seconds to divide 152.57 MHz by 1.05 MHz. That results in an imopossible number that shows it can't be a harmonic.
2) Radio stations are usually many miles away from their transmitters, so that rules out that theory.
Any more wild guesses?

152.57 MHz divided by 1.05 KHz = ~145304.7619047619, but at least I put the decimal in the correct place. However since I don't have any idea (and neither do you) what the IF's are in the scanner, I won't make broad statements like you did.

152.57 MHz divided by 1.05 KHz = ~145304.7619047619, but at least I put the decimal in the correct place. However since I don't have any idea (and neither do you) what the IF's are in the scanner, I won't make broad statements like you did.

"When the impossible has been eliminated, what remains however improbable is the solution."
Sherlock Holmes

First, we eliminate the impossible. If it were a harmonic of an AM broadcast station it too would be AM, however it's FM. 152.780MHz is a pager frequency and there are no other licensees in New York or New Jersey, in fact there are only a handful of pagers in both states. 1050KHz in NYC is ESPN Radio, not Bloomberg. (Bloomberg was 102.7FM but I have no idea what Mike did with it now that it went Rock.) It is not ESPN, the audio doesn't match.

I hear a continuous broadcast that sounds like talk radio here at the central NJ shore but it's very weak and pretty much unreadable. I've got a pretty darn good IC-706Mk2G with a high gain vertical up 40' and hearing the NYCTA and NYFD loud and clear with this mystery signal as low as it is it can't have much ERP or is in a bad location for me.

Now you've got me wondering too, Sherlock needs RDF for this bit of improbability and he never speculates.

For what it's worth, we often use a business band frequency to send "pre delay" or IFB to a remote broadcast site when we're not using an ISDN line.

When a radio station is doing it's thing, there is there is anywhere between 7 and 15 seconds of delay before the analog signal is transmitted. (7 or 8 seconds for profanity delay and 7 seconds of HD radio buffer to match the analog and digital signal to prevent choppy blending.)

So, if a station is doing a remote, they need to hear the predelay on site for phone callers, music and studio cuing. Sometimes two predelay signals are sent, one with cuing (or IFB) and the other a mix minus, without the host microphone, to create a PA feed.

OK... that's my 2 cents.

Oh yeah, we always use our RPU channels. Well, most of the time.

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"If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion.” -Lazarus Long

Most modern broadcast stations use spectrum up around 945 Mhz for STL stuff, and most all STL stuff is digital now. If they are using that frequency for STL use they are asking for some real trouble and I don't mean from the FCC. It's just a matter of time before the right person figures out they are doing the STL on the frequency and hijacks it or jams it.